laudation

Borrowed from Latin laudatio; compare Old English taudation. See laud.

• IPA^(key): /lɔːˈdeɪ.ʃən/

laudation (countable and uncountable, plural laudations)

1. The act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
   • 1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498:

     […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 21:

     We know that the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians had already used the responsive form, notably form A (refrain), in their laudations and supplications.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

     Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.

• See also Thesaurus:praise

• applaud
• applause
• plaudit

• adulation